Melissa Joseph is honored after official notification yesterday that she was selected on the T&T National Taekwondo Team to represent the country at the Olympic Qualifiers, in Aguascalientes, Mexico this March. This was after her progressive and brave performance this past week at the US Open 2016 International Taekwondo Tournament, held in Reno, Nevada, USA.

Bali in Indonesia has been officially confirmed as the location for the first ever World Beach Taekwondo Championships in June, an innovative new event in which men will wear sleeveless shirts and women will compete in tank tops.

The move by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) to occasionally rebrand themselves as World Taekwondo has garnered interest from outside the sporting world, judging by a brief search on the internet this morning.